Learning Vim in a Week

Learning Vim can be hard. Let's learn how to get up, running and productive quickly.

1. Learning Vim in a Week Mike Coutermarsh @mscccc Boston Vim
2. Our Goal: Use @ Work
3. “LEARNING VIM IS HARD”
4. Advice from Tom
5. “Sometimes you gotta work a little so you can ball a lot”
6. INVESTING IN YOURSELF
7. Before you start, you should know.
8. Different from everything you’ve used before 1
9. don’t start @ work 2
10. break up with your 3
11. But can it…? 4 yes, yes it can.
12. Always a better way 5
13. Learn something every week 6
14. LET’S REVIEW
15. 1. It’s different 2. Not @ work 3. break up with your 4. But can it…? 5. Always a better way 6. Learn every week
16. Hack your Keyboard
17. Remap Caps Lock to ESC OSX: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/seil.html.en
18. Speed up your key repeat OSX: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
20. Basics
21. There are Modes
22. Normal Insert Visual
23. Normal Insert Visual
24. Normal Insert Visual
25. Normal Insert Visual
26. Normal Insert Visual
27. Basics
28. Commands
30. C I )
31. C I ) Change
32. C I ) Change Inside
33. C I ) Change Inside Parens
34. C I ) Change Inside Parens
35. C I “
36. C I }
37. D I )
38. Say them in your head
39. Get the Cheat Sheet http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial.html
40. Configuring Vim
41. ~/.vimrc your new best friend
42. version control your vimrc
43. Steal your friends dotfiles
44. Me: https://github.com/mscoutermarsh/dotfiles ! Thoughtbot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles
45. Where to actually start learning
46. $ vimtutor do this, a lot
47. vim-adventures.com
48. Screen Casts watch others use Vim
49. VimCasts: http://vimcasts.org/ ! Upcase: https://upcase.com/vim
50. Plugins for development
51. Ctrl-P https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
52. NERDTree https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
53. AG for Vim https://github.com/rking/ag.vim
54. rails.vim https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails
55. vim-rspec https://github.com/thoughtbot/vim-rspec
56. ONE LAST REVIEW
57. 1. Caps lock -> ESC 2. Do vimtutor 3. Watch screencasts 4. Steal from your friends 5. Learning vim is a process!
58. FINALLY, COMMIT TO IT
59. ✌️ Thanks @mscccc coutermarsh.mike@gmail.com